September 17, 2012

The tail end of the Faery Book Swap, I'll miss it!

The Faery Book Swap is winding down, thanks to all of you for your patience in me getting them mailed out.

As I was putting together the very last one, I felt sad to think they were all going to be gone and my studio would feel so empty. I've loved assembling each and every one of these special pages of art.

As a farewell to the project, I stopped what I was doing and made one more page to include as the very last page in the very last book I was tying up with ribbons.

Every book as been put together now, all I need to do is slip them into their padded envelopes and make labels. Now, that sounds simple, but that is a lot of labels to make, so I'll be at it most of the day, and hopefully will have all of the goodies ready to go to the Post Office by Monday afternoon. Wish me luck!

There was a set back earlier in the week, when my old printer shot craps on me. Usually, I make a few books, make some labels, and mail a tubful, then repeat. But without a printer, I just went ahead and made all the books, now I need to sit down and make all the labels at one time. Ugh, boring. Its more fun to take breaks from labels to go and play with pretty fairy pages!

Office Depot recommended this HP86000 plus printer to me, I was told that it will print 2000 some pages for the same amount of ink that my old one would print 200. That sold me. It was a bit more expensive, but I got a $50 trade in on my dead one, it came with ink, and it was on sale. So, I was glad to get it.

Till I got home and had to try to figure out how to set it up. There went a precious hour of my life.... but all is done and ready now, I'm off to type away the rest of the day!

I'll leave you with some of the last books.

And a thank you to all of the kind hearted, talented swappers who were so generous with their time and skills!

And who were so patient with the time it took me to get these made and mailed.

I'm sorry that I don't get photos of all the pages, I randomly shoot some books that I have laid out on the table before I stack them up to hole punch.

There is a Pinterest board here that I've tried to add pictures from my blog to. If you have pictures of your pages that you'd like to pin to that board, please request an invite to become another pinner on it.

Also, feel free to add your names to the Pinterest photos that you are in, you can do that in the comment section. I will be pinning these photos to it later on after I get your books mailed.

Gosh, the studio is going to be empty with all of these gone!! I've had 2 dining tables filled with pages, a folding table to open packages on, another table filled stacked with covers, my work table stuffed with books in progress, and two other tables set up for wrapping and shipping stations.

Wow, this had taken over the whole room!

But it is less than 3 weeks until Romantic Gothic Ghosts, so its a good thing that the room is clearing out! I need to get that set up, make name tags, kits, and decorate. I've got some ideas that I hope will turn out cute. Beth has some too, and offered to come over to help.

By the way, that class is filling up. I have 3 people who are "maybes" and only 4 spots left. That means if the maybes are yesses, there is only one spot. Contact me if you are interested before its too late!!

Comments

I'm so glad you've enjoyed being our faerie godmother, Karla! Thank you so so much for doing this for us!

We drove up to our house Saturday after attending a barbecue, and I saw a very promising-looking package sticking up out of our mailbox . . . . Could it be? Yes, it was! I love my faerie book! I will relish looking at it over and over again! I'll be trying to contact everyone who made a page in my book-- either on their blog or FB if I can find them! I have been contacted on FB by three people now who have received my pages, and it has been great fun to connect with them!

Love looking at these and wondering "Is that one coming to me?" or is "THAT one coming to me?" It will be such fun. Hearing your stories really make me gulp when I think about ever hosting a swap. I think I'll need to wait till I retire! Thanks for doing this great project!

Oh I've so enjoyed seeing so many of the pages from the Fairy Swap book. Each one is so beautiful. I truly love each page in mine. Thank you once again, Karla, so ALL your hard work and time you sacrificed for all of us, so we could be a part of this fun swap. I can't wait until you do another one! This was the most fun I've had crafting in a long time! xoxoxo